Management Accountant

The Vacancy

📊 Management Accountant

📍 Location: Finsbury Park (2 days/week)
👤 Reports to: FP&A Finance Business Partner
💰 Salary: Competitive + Bonus
📝 Contract Type: Permanent

We’re on the lookout for a proactive, energetic, and detail-driven Management Accountant to join our FP&A team. This is a key role supporting both the FP&A function and the wider Finance structure, with plenty of scope for growth and development.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

• Lead month-end processes including journals, reporting, and controls
• Prepare and consolidate complex monthly management accounts across multiple legal entities
• Produce key business reports and regional dashboards
• Manage fleet reporting and maintain financial data within COINS
• Analyse financial trends and ensure books are balanced
• Communicate effectively across the business, translating complex financial data into clear insights

🎯 What We’re Looking For

• Qualifications:
  • ACCA or CIMA qualified (essential)
  • Ideally degree educated
• Experience:
  • Minimum 3 years in a similar finance role
  • Strong background in preparing and consolidating management accounts
• Skills & Attributes:
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Strong analytical and report writing abilities
  • Excellent communicator – able to explain complex ideas to non-finance stakeholders
  • Self-motivated, thrives under pressure, and maintains high attention to detail
  • Team player with aspirations for career growth
• Bonus Experience:
  • COINS and Power BI

🌟 What We Offer

• Competitive salary & bonus
• Flexible working – 2 days/week in Finsbury Park office
• Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)
• Extensive corporate benefits
• Industry-leading family leave:
  • 26 weeks fully paid maternity
  • 8 weeks fully paid paternity
• Excellent learning and development opportunities to support your career progression

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.